Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Filter for lubricants of internal combustion engines, with a reserve of additives

EP 0254776 B1 · Applicant: GILARDINI S.p.A.

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed November 10, 1986 and granted March 6, 1991. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 10, 2006.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by May 10, 2012.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledNovember 10, 1986
PublishedFebruary 3, 1988
GrantedMarch 6, 1991
Term endedNovember 10, 2006
Application numberEP 86201950
Classification (CPC)B01D27/08 +2 more

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1987198919911993199519971999200120032005Application filedNov 10, 1986PublishedFeb 3, 1988Patent grantedMarch 6, 1991Term endedNov 10, 2006

Sources & verification